Improvement in track-clearers for mowing-machines



PATENT OFFICE.

A. MAROELLUS, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT iN TRACK-CLEARERS FOR MOWING-MACHINS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 19,936, dated April 13, 1858.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM MARCELLUS, o f Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Track-Clearers for Mowing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making apart ot' this specilication, 'in Which- Figure lis a side view of a mowing-machine with my improvement applied to it, and Fig. 2 is a plan or top view ofthe same. K

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two iigures.

'Iliis invention consists in a novel Way of operating or vibrating a plate or board which is plvoted to the shoe and fitted within' the wint', at the outer end ofthe finger-bar of the machine, the vibrating plate or board and the wing constituting the track-clearer.

lhe invention relates to a modilication ot'an improved trackclearer for which Letters Patent were granted to me, bearing date December 29, 1857. In the latter invention the plate or board was so arranged as to be operated by a cam placed on the wheel which supported the outer end -of the finger-bar, and hence said invention was only applicable to largesized machines, or such in which it `was necessary to have the outei" ends of the nger-bars supported by a wheel.

Ihis invention herein described is designed to render the vibratory plate or board applicable to smail or light machines, or any class of mowing-machines in which it is not necessary to have the finger-bars supported at their outer ends by wheels.

Io enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the main frame of a mowingmachine, and B is the ringer-bar attached thereto.

U is the driving-wheel, which is fitted Within the main frame, and D isa shoe attached to the outer end ot' the ringer-bar, said shoe having a wing, E, attached to it.

'lhe above parts are of usual construction, and therefore do not require a minute descrip-V tion. c

F is a plate or'board, the lower end of' which 'is pivoted to the shoe, as shown 'at a. This board or plate is fitted in a slot in the wing E, and Iis allowed to work or vibrate horizontally therein. The board or plate has an inclined position corresponding ofcourse to the inclination ot' the wing E, and the upper end in fact, a cam, the front end ot1 the level G r bears, and is pressed against the cam by means of spiral spring` j', which encompasses the rod d, and has its lower end attached to the main frame, and its upper end attached to the lever G. v

From the above description it will be seen that as the machine is drawn along the cam e will move the lever G in one direction, and the springf will move it in the opposite direction, and consequently a vibratory movement will be given the board or plate F, and the cut grass willbe thrown oft' from the wing E toward lthe lever G, and an unobstructed or free space or track formed between the standing and cut grass, the plate or board being operated from the same wheel'that drives the sickle or cutting device.

I do not claim separately the wing E and plate or board F, for they have beenpreviously used; but v I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Operating the plate or board F from the driving-wheel O by the means herein shown, or its equivalent, for the purpose set forth.

ABRAHAM MARCELLUS.

Witnesses: a

F. T. B. SAMMoNs, GEO. C. BELL. 

